The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, June 28, 1920, Page 8

wu- For many years conditions had been growing worse - T " catalog houses by the farmers, “that merchant thinks, we do’ this business because . ‘Women and "'th‘e Leag"ue Noted North Dakota Writer Tells What Or- gamzatlon Means: to the’ Home - - The wrlter of this article has become widely known as, the author of “A Modern Hiawatha” and other poems ing of the - League movement. - Mrs. Borner is a hrm. i woman herself and knows of what she speaks ¢ . BY FLOREN CE BORNER ;1SK almost any up-to-date farmer’s wife . what three things she most desires and her answer will be: First, better economic and living conditions; see- ond, more time for recreation; third, better ‘educational facilities for her children. e Here we have the answer to the question: “What does the Nonpartisan league program mean to the women and children on the farm ?” The: need for better economic. conditions is the very thing that brought the League into being. and worse.: In vain were the farmers’ petitions for- justice. The bosses were in the saddle and refused 1o offer even slight redress for the wrongs suffered by the people. ing they determined to organize and gain by organ- - ization what they could never hope to gain singly.” Naturally, when the farmer only received from: one-half to one-fourth what he was entitled to for' the fruits of his toil, his wife and children were the first to_suffer. What will it mean to the farm women when they receive just recompense for their labor? What will'it mean to their children when, for the first time; the farmer finally gets what he has been struggling for for so many years? . ../ It will mean fewer discouraged farm women and’ fewer discontented farm: children.” It will mean better times, better clothes and, in many ‘cases; bet- . . ter food. Is it any wonder the farm women see in the League program the fulfillment:.of those things = they have been hoping, praying and struggling for - - 'so long? Is it'any wonder they hail it as the New " Day that will brmg prospenty and contentment to their homes? With prospenty will come many labor-saving devices to lighten the work-of the home and bring more time for rest and recreatlon to the farm woman, 5 Is not our 51ster on the farm entitled to the same. privilege as her city sister? = Yet how many, ex~ cepting the more fortunate ones, enjoy them ?- With better prices for our products. we shall have more money to spend on clothes and entertainment., MORE MONEY FOR FARMER MEANS MORE ¥OR MERCHANT Just the other day I overheard a merchant la-~ menting over the money sent out.of his town to Now I wonder if we want to. No! It is because by doing so'we get things a few cents cheaper, and we have to make every penny count. ‘We would much prefer buying the better class’ of: goods he handles than the cheaper goods, if we could afford it. Like their city sisters, farm women love to buy. » things, and it is small pleasure just to order things and not see them wuntil seyeral weeks later,: but we - have to do it; ~ Now, if Mr. Merchant would wake up and stop fighting' the League it would be much better for him. He is just a cat’s-paw for big business out- side the state and doesn’t know it. Better schools will mean better educated farm children. This will mean that a well-educated farm boy or girl will be the rule ‘rather than the exception, as at present.. The farm child is just as much’entitled to a, good education as his ciby cousin. The farmer pays the bulk of the taxes and constitutes the majority of our population. Why, then, has he been neglected in so many ways? The answer is that he has lived hxs hfe “too much apart from the rest of ‘the world. Orgamzatlon will change all this. United the farmer is a force _to be reckoned with and will quickly get what he "demands, and he won’t have to beg for rt either. " Through his organization he will get the help he n‘eeds, and his. w1£e and chlldren mo more wrll feel ~ ; . the united efforts of all who toil to dislodge him. When the farmers could not obtam even a hear- " the ballot, you will know just how to use lt for’ the .. June 2. “think and T am only 14 years old. Now: someone else -like outcasts, but can take therr proper places in - society. . His chxldren also w:ll not- be | S0 anxious to leave ‘the farm, when they learn they can make as much on the farm as in the city and have the added ben- efits of pure air and pure food. * A food shortage is now Jmpendmé and one of the A prime causes:is' because the farmer went broke feeding the world, when, had he received just com- pensation, there would have been no need for worry on that score, ; Like the man in the nursery. tale “theyhave Killed - = the goose that 1aid the golden egg.”” With the com- |, ing into being of the Nonpartisan'league program there will not be such 'a spread between prices re- . ceived by the producer and those paid by the con- sumer. It will do away with a lot of the useless middlemen along:the way. = Therefore the League means much to the farm. ultimate: consumer, who will get his necessities: - without paying toll all along the way. But these - things can not be had without & struggle. - The enemy is firmly intrenched and'is loath to yield any - of his priyileges which he has enjoyed for so long. He is making his last final stand and it will fake . Sisters, study up on economics. ' Read all the lit-"~ erature you can get on bopxcs ‘that are at present interesting us, learn all you can. about: this ‘wonder: ‘" ful mew movement and then, when you are giver pfuture good of yonr home and. cotmtry. i3 “We’ll Stlck-—You lct” ' Montana Farm 'Famfly All Good Leaguers, 2 Even to the Bunny : Edltor Nonpartlsan Leader My httle gn‘l saw a chlld’s pxcture on: the Womans page and asked = Mlss Helen V. Humm, a young. Leaguer of Sun- Sh burst, Mont., and her. pets. me to read to her about 1t. So 1 did and she said, “Oh, mother, send mine in,” 50 here it is. I am also interested ‘in-the ‘Weman’s page and hope that every man -and’ woman will wake up, get their eyes opened and cast their votes for the N. P. L. ‘My husbahd is'a true member and so am I and w111 do all I can for the cause. | We'll stick and we will wm, you bet. ; Sunburst, Mont, : S. W. H. HU MM - FIRST TEXAS ‘CLUB. FORMED 5 Through the efforts of Mrs. J..F. Evers, wife’ of a-League organizer of Palacxos, Texas, a/ ' Women’s Nonpartisan ‘club. was formed in_that community . The southern states are showmg fully as great an interest in’the hew women’s. orgamzatxon ‘ ‘as the northern states, if the flood of inquiries from. that sectioncan be taken ag any indication. » Full ‘information about the Women’s Nonpartlsan . clubs: can be secured by writing the National Sec- | retazy, Women's. Nonpartxsan Clubs, Box 2072 aneapohs, an. gy : o MR. BEAN FULL OF THEM Edltor Nonpart:san Leader: . Mr. M. T. Bean league. But he is full of beans. That’s what I answer this letter and tell what' ‘he thinks. Zap, N. D. MISS FREIDA GRAMM mon mosr AL o ‘Reports to the National Secretaty 'Womans page—something that would go. to the _very depths of these all-absorbing quesfions ‘and. see the apathy of both meén and women.. Tame . " submission is the opmte ‘that kills. womer and children, and also means much to_the . ..strong army and through the ballot denmnd‘ justice ‘League leaders) will restore to every man, woman “and child their rights. And I-feel if we ‘work hard _enough we ‘will not only be sticking—we will ‘win. . ‘mining engineer calied me ‘yesterday and ‘said that I was going to be made.a tempting offer to refuse . “ to take part in the coming campaign. She beggédg 1 - :me not to be tempted, as she said I'was the only ‘woman they " could depend upon to work for the: . 'women in politics back for many years in Montana. . Isn’t that a dreadful responsibility for me to bear?: - own. town unless.I promise to “be that to him last week and he told me to tell them fl '~ saw Butte and expects to the rest of his life. T- . know you will be glad to know I have the co-opera- - ~ tion of my husband in thxs work " 'party picketed ‘the Chicago 'Coliseum, where the " 'ners demanding that Republican leaders take some -“action to get the woman suffrage amendment rati- “fied immediately. Any one of three Repubhcan ; - governors, by calling a’special session of the leg-‘ S _ islature of his state, can complete the ratification : ‘states, North Dakota, the League controls: both _forced the old political parties to ratify this amend- . ment in other states, both Repubfican a.nd Demo- : ~.state in the Union, allowing women distant from the " polls’ to vote without ‘being required to go to the _yoting place. This law was pessed by the League legislature. © ; “-put up. candidates women ‘have been on the ticket. . In North Dakota and South Dakota women. have " been indorsed for state superintendent of school;, in : thought he was right agamst “the Nonpartisan ; £ andiin anesota a- woman was. indorsed for state F rom Women s» Club Many States ATIONAL SECRETABY Gur mem- : | bershxp will soon reach the 100 mark. In this organization ‘work I simply took . my' car. and worked as the League oreamzers do. . Other mem- bers have used thls method wlth_‘ marked Success. - oy How I wish someone would wnte real good m- | spiring, soul-stirring articles every week for the make the people think.. It'gets on one’s nerves to Rxghteous in- dignation 1s nothmg more nor less than: mght ETHEL HOLBROO ot ‘erk Col Natmnal Secretary Shall try my best in’get- ting. the ladies interested in this movement. There is no reason why we women should not unite in one: and freedom which I know is rightfully ours. I we unitedly help our champions of democracy (our Cambndge, Mum. o MRS BEN DANSARE‘ 7 : National Secretary The w1fe of a cor;poratxoni women who. are in favor of removing corporate, control, and if T -failed them it would put confidence in. i Mr, K. has left town for employment and’ my punishment is to be a refusal to employ hmlx in his wrote to go to blazes. ' He made a living ‘before he ever MBS E. K. Butte, Mont : WOMAN'S PARTY DEMANDS VOTE = Scores of members of the National Womans : Republican national convention was: held ‘with ‘ban- of ‘the amendment. . On the last day of the conven- tion, after the platform had been adopted wzth a plank in favor of equal suflrage, ‘the women in- vaded the convention witl.‘a big banner with the words, “We don’t want blanks, what we: want is the thxrty~sutth state? &7 hIN : THE LEAGUE AND WOMAN SUFFRAGE Tvery one of the 13 states in which the Nonpar- . . tisan league is organizing has approved the woman suffrage amendment.: While in’ only one ‘of these branches of the legxslature, the fear of the League cratie. - North Dakota has the most hberal law of any In every state in whlch the League has l:hus ar. Nebraska a woman. ha.s ‘been indorsed for congress